[blparent] Help

[Mark Melonson]

Jennifer,

Keep your head up... From my "limitted" experience with this subject with my 
girls and younger cousins, it is usually just a matter of time before they 
grow out of it. In my case, there were two reasons why my younger cousins 
acted similarly when I was watchign them. 1) They thought that they could 
get away with it, because I couldn't see them. 2) They thought that I was 
treated as someone who was more "special" than them when around those who 
they accepted as having authority over them (parents, grandparents, etc...) 
In the case of the former, it may just be a matter of re-enforcing the idea 
that, though he is blind, he is capable of finding out when she is 
misbehaving and WILL do so. This was generally the case with my younger 
cousins when I'd babysit them. Once they realized that they weren't going to 
get away with it, and that I was paying close attention and routinely caught 
them, then it stopped, and one of them calls me Daredevil to this day. In 
the case of the latter, It is not that simple. Time fixed that one, but it 
took more than two years. This is quite common in children that age, though 
I know that probably doesn't help much to hear.

All the best,
-Mark

Jennifer Massey writes:

> lovely a few years huh.  I guess telling her when she feels like she is 
> going to be bad to come talk to us won't work then.  sorry being sarcastic a 
> bit and fustrated.  Last week she pushed her screen out her window and 
> started throwing her toys out of it.  we live in an apartment and the rental 
> office called him to let him know I was working a double.  last week I 
> worked 63 hours, worked 4 double shifts and still having financial issues 
> and the kids just make me sooo fustrated when they do stuff like this and 
> then finally to find out why makes it even more fustrating when we can't 
> find a way to fix it.
> 
> Jennifer and dustin
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>> she'll grow out of this. I currently deal with this with my 8 and a  half 
>> year old daughter and I do everything humanly possible for her.
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>> it isn't an attention thing its a I'm a little kid and I got something  to 
>> use to my advantage thing.
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>> give it time, like a couple of years time.
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>> On Jul 14, 2009, at 9:52 PM, Jennifer Massey wrote:
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>> My boyfriend has no vision but my children do. He watches them 2 or 3 
>> days a week sometimes for more then 8 hours a day.  My daughter who  will 
>> be 6 soon told him today that she does the things that she does  that are 
>> bad because he can't see her do them.  This hurt him very  much.  We are 
>> not sure what to do at this point and any advice would  be helpful.  I 
>> have tried spending extra time with her when I can and  giving her some 
>> positive attention.  This week we have swimming which  we always do 
>> together not only has a family but we each take some  individual time with 
>> both of the kids, we also are taking both the  kids to a carnival on 
>> friday and we are all going to the zoo on  saturday.  We really try to 
>> spend as much time as we can with them in  the positive and not sure why 
>> my daughter is lashing out so much  towards him in general.  When I am at 
>> home she doesn't do this and  when she is with her dad and his wife she 
>> doesn't do it either.  Just  with him.
>>
>> Jennifer and Dustin
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